[How to align/distribute objects along a curve?]

Hmm. Okay. It looks like a hack but partially can do the job.

Thank you

[How to align/distribute objects along a curve?]

Hello Marc,

Thanks for the response.
I do know how to align the text along the path in Affinity Designer.

My question was specifically for any vector objects.

[How to align/distribute objects along a curve?]

How can I align/distribute multiple objects along a curve?

Like in this picture below (created in Xara Designer with the Blend tool):

[Registration Sign-In error in Photo and Publisher (split - Registration Timeout)]

3 hours ago, DanG said:

Thanks for everybody's help with this. We're still looking into it and have a couple more questions:

Firstly, @Arlen Keshabyan, would you mind answering the following:

1. Did you purchase the app from the Microsoft Store?
2. What version of Microsoft Store do you have running (found towards the bottom of the Settings page)?
3. What's the version number of c:\windows\system32\RuntimeBroker.exe?

Secondly, for everybody in this thread, are you running any anti-virus software? If so, what is it?

Thanks in advance

Of course!

1. Yes, I did. I purchased the app from the Microsoft Store.
2. The Microsoft Store version is 12011.1001.1.0
3. The RuntimeBroker version is 10.0.19041.746

I don't use any third-party anti-virus software except for the built-in Microsoft Windows Defender one.

Also, please note, when the hardware acceleration is enabled in any Affinity app settings, the overall performance feels laggy. I use the NVIDIA ASUS Strix 3090 graphics card with the latest video drivers installed.

[Registration Sign-In error in Photo and Publisher (split - Registration Timeout)]

Same here.

The registration and logging in went Okay on Mac and iPad, but not on Windows:

 

Does anyone know how to fix this on Windows 10?

[Feather edges only]

12 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

Just clip the image/picture with the shape and add a Gaussian blur effect to the clipping path.

 

Yep. Thanks. That worked.

[Feather edges only]

Hello Affinity team,

Here is the feature request to do easy feathering. Usually, in Xara Designer, I put a picture in a vector object and use feathering to smooth edges of the object. As an example:

No feather:

 

With feather:

 

Feathering is done as simple as dragging a slider to the desired number of pixels to smooth the edges.

I wonder, if such functionality is possible to implement for the Layer effects?

If yes, then when it's expected? If no, then why and how to achieve the same effect now in Affinity Designer?

 

Thanks,
Arlen.

[Cusp join for curves wanted]

9 minutes ago, dominik said:

Hi @Arlen Keshabyan,

well, I am not a developer but just another user.

If I understand your request correctly you can do this. Click on a node's handle and additionally press the ALT-key (on Windows). This will turn a smooth node into a corner.

Is this what you are looking for?

d.

Ahh. It is  Thank you, @dominik  You made my day  

Please, consider this topic as resolved.

[Cusp join for curves wanted]

Hello Affinity devs,

Are there any plans to implement CUSP join for curves in Affinity Designer (like Xara does)?
I extremely need this.

Thanks,
Arlen.

 

[Placing an SVG doesn't work neither in Designer nor in Publisher]

35 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

And another: Was it really made inside Inkscape or just  smuggled through this pipeline because of something? I ask because creating this kind of masks is tedious instead of drawing a stretched ellipse with a proper radial gradient.

It was created in Xara and exported to the SVG by Xara. Then it was successfully opened by Inkscape and then re-exported to plain SVG from Inkscape.

[Placing an SVG doesn't work neither in Designer nor in Publisher]

30 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

I was talking about the snippet v_kyr posted not your SVG which works just fine everywhere except AD - so I have the same question like you.

Sorry for misunderstanding then

30 minutes ago, firstdefence said:

https://validator.w3.org/#validate_by_upload

Yeah. It looks like the file is the correct SVG from the W3C standard perspective (except for one warning )

 

[Placing an SVG doesn't work neither in Designer nor in Publisher]

7 hours ago, PixelPest said:

This don´t seem a proper SVG file.

This SVG was generated by Inkscape with the plane SVG option. I'm very doubtful that this SVG is wrong because, as I stated before, any web browser, Xara and Inkscape can display this SVG correctly. Though, to state this SVG is incorrect we need to know whether it complies with the W3C specification or not.

9 hours ago, PixelPest said:

Your SVG file contains masks for the gradient effect on the strokes (stretched rectangles) which AD can´t read/interpret obviously:

Yes, it does. But the question is not about why it contains masks. It contains masks because SVG can legally contain masks. Why not? :) The question is why AD cannot properly parse it, execute and display while other applications can do it without a hassle. ;)

[Placing an SVG doesn't work neither in Designer nor in Publisher]

Thanks to everyone for the clarification. It helped a little bit. I'll explain why "a little bit".

If Designer knows that the SVG object is going to be outside the page and totally invisible to the user, could Designer warn the user about this situation and suggest to move it onto the visible area of the page in this case? Now Designer feels a little bit user unfriendly  Designer goes even further in being misleading for the user by displaying the empty surrounding rectangle on the empty page thus making the user think that this empty rectangle IS the real SVG object. Why Designer even draws this empty rectangle?  

I've managed to place the SVG on the page and I discovered that the result is not a little bit the same as the original one. The "WRONG" one is from the Affinity Designer:

 

Thanks again for the great Affinity products.
The Serif team builds wonderful professional grade products.
I believe, together we can make the Affinity products even better!

Thanks,
Arlen.

[Suggestions for Affinity Designer that I miss from Xara Designer Pro X]

14 minutes ago, Aammppaa said:

I believe that the bevel tool in Xara also creates a raster effect (it certainly used to, but could conceivably have changed in a recent version).

Correct, but even if Xara creates a raster effect, it manages to recalculate the effect perfectly every time an object changes or it exports a document for different DPIs.

I agree, Affinity has the bevel layer effect but it's not as powerful and flexible as Xara's yet  But I believe Serif will do the bevel tool more powerful and flexible than that in Xara!

Thank you!

[Suggestions for Affinity Designer that I miss from Xara Designer Pro X]

Hello Serif team. Thank you for the great Affinity products that you do!

There are a couple of features that I miss in Affinity Designer from Xara Designer Pro X.

1. The first feature is the Blend tool in Xara Designer Pro that allows you to create a number of transformations from one vector object into another with a variety of options, including morphing colours, shapes and the ability to align the result along a vector path (like aligning a text along a path). It also can duplicate one object multiple times in a variety of ways. Later, you can convert a blend object to separate editable vector objects if you need. As a simple example, this tool allows you to create one vector star object, immediately blend it into multiple stars with preferred spacing between them (even unevenly) and align them all along a circular path. I think, it's a very interesting and powerful tool to have in Affinity Designer.

2. Also, I miss the Contour tool. It allows you to create vector contours around objects with variety of options. Of course, the contour object is also convertible into a vector object.

3. Another very powerful feature from Xara Designer Pro is Guideline Layers. All vector objects that are drawn on such layers turn into guidelines. This ability lets you have very tricky guidelines that cannot be achieved by the simple guideline system such as in Affinity Designer and Publisher.

 

4. The Mould tool in Xara Designer Pro is also very powerful. It resembles the Mesh Warp tool in Affinity Photo, but it also can be applied to vector objects in a non-destructive and editable way.

5. And the great Bevel tool of Xara Designer Pro.

6. And the last in the list but not least, the Shape Painter tool. It's provides a very convenient way of retouching and fixing vector shapes.

Thank you,
Arlen.

[Placing an SVG doesn't work neither in Designer nor in Publisher]

Hello Serif team.

First of all, let me thank you for the amazing Affinity products that you've been making.

 

Now, I want to report a bug about placing an SVG file.

I try to place an SVG file into Designer and/or Publisher but it doesn't show up at all. I looks like a totally transparent object on the page.

But the Inskape, Xara Designer Pro and Google chrome browser applications can display the SVG (I've attached to this topic) without any problem.

Is it a bug?

 

Thanks,

Arlen.

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